Former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay passed away Tuesday after his two-seater airplane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving behind his wife, Brandy, and their two sons.
One month before his death, Halladay and his wife discussed her fear of his flying in a now-deleted YouTube video posted by ICON Aircraft, with Brandy explaining that she “fought hard” against her husband’s hobby.
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“I didn’t grow up the way Roy did,” she said, via PEOPLE. “I didn’t grow up with airplanes or a comfort level the way he did with small planes.”
“She fought me the whole way,” Halladay said in the clip.
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“I fought hard,” Brandy added, “I was very against it.”
Brandy later went with her husband to the training center in St. Petersburg, Florida to see the plane, an ICON A5.
“They said, ‘Oh, you want to go up for a ride?’ And I went up to that plane and I looked over [at him] and I said, ‘I get it, I get it,’ ” she said in the video. “You forget you’re in a plane.”
Halladay, who pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, was 40 years old.
“We were devastated to learn that former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay died today in an accident involving an ICON A5 in the Gulf of Mexico,” ICON said in a statement, via ESPN. “ICON will do everything it can to support the accident investigation going forward and we will comment further when more information is available.”
Photo Credit: YouTube / ICON Aircraft, Getty / Miles Kennedy
